Another way of looking at it is the standard of refereeing must be diabolical with all those missed incidents week in week out!

Absolutely this, if a an incident is good enough for a ban after the event then it should have been a red card at the time of it. The ref has missed 3 red cards essentially.

Has anyone looked at the percentage increase in the amount of bans this year from previous years?

I`m sure Hurrell has had 2 or 3 late hits on a player chalked off.
The Cas player`s deliberate use of an elbow got 2 games ffs.
The Fusitua one is a complete joke.
Probably not good for the game Leeds winning the GF from 5th/6th.

The Cheyse Blair elbow was an absolute stinker. Shooting out and reading your opposite number is no way the same. Shambles of a sport

Yeh that elbow to get the same ban is one that really makes you question what are we trying to penalise here.

They have this obsession with "flexion of the neck."
The Salford players head whips back pretty hard, but that doesn't mean it was an illegal tackle, it just means his head whipped back.
It's a hard thing to fake, but I wouldn't be surprised to see someone try and fake it id they think they've been hit late

Tripping someone up and an assault to the head with the elbow both warrant the same length of punishment it seems.

Even taking the trip out of it and just looking at the two ‘high shots’ surely they deserve a different punishment. Ones a slightly mistimed tackle as you would normally defined tackle, the other was a blatant ant elbow to the head with very little control or regard for the safety of his opponent.

In a way, if Blair had have got four games, I could have maybe got my head around Fus getting two, even if I didn’t agree with it I could get the logic and the grading system, but for them both to get 2 is beyond ludicrous. Mistimed contact sport incident vs blatant attack to the head.

I know we need to protect players but this is a contact sport. Of all our recent first team game suspensions the only one that for sure would have led to a ban in the NRL was Tetevano's. Across other games this round just 4 players suspended (which in itself is too many), but suggesting Leeds alone had almost as many players deserving bans from one game which wasn't exactly marked by violence??

I sincerely hope Hetherington is having a go behind the scenes. If its not working then he should go public and call them out, and sod the fines.

I wonder who is reviewing the games and putting cases forward to the committee? Is that the key to our ongoing issues?

However that does not explain things like the Blair 2 game ban and some of these incidents getting 2 games.

Whatever we need to get our house in order because it’s messing up our whole season